Welcome to another blogging Topic this vlogging topic is all about where i see blogging going in the next few years is blogging dead okay so first up I think that this is such a perfect guide for right now since we’re going into the new year and it is a hot topic i am very passionate about this topic as with a lot of things vlogging but especially this one and i think that it will lead to a lot of really good conversations because the last time i talked about something like this it caused quite
The Enduring Value of Blogging in the Digital Age
when you start a blog or when you blog it takes so much freaking time so much time so much more time than anyone thinks that it’s going to take and so a lot of people are like is this actually worth it and then some people are saying that blogging is dead which I just will truly never understand my first point is that blogging is never going to go away it is our new world it’s our new magazine it’s a new way people get the information I know for me I search every single thing on
the internet
as I think a lot of us do if I need to know how long to cook a chicken I search on the internet where is the best coffee shop in the area I search it on the internet you know like you are constantly throughout the day searching on the internet when you search on social media that is SEO and leads to a lot of bloggers and so basically anytime that you search something on the internet you are going to a blogger’s website or a website of sorts and that’s also why I say that people are like I’m running out of ideas
Blogging: An Endless Source of Inspiration
And what to blog about I’m kind of like BS there’s no way that you can run out of ideas on what to talk about because there are so many things that people are searching for and I think that you can agree with me that people are going to continue using the internet as a search engine for probably our entire lifetime or at least my entire lifetime we are in the forefront of it so a lot of people are like it’s coming to an end I truly believe that we’re just at the beginning of this if you think from when the internet started
from when people actually like the normal everyday person started using the internet in the grand scheme of marketing and the world and how we get our information it really hasn’t been that long it’s probably been like 20 years and so if you think about it think about newspapers think about magazines they’ve been around a whole lot longer than 20 years and the people that got in in the first 20 years are still carrying where it is today now is the time to get in because we’re still learning where
The Evolution of Blogging: Staying Relevant in a Changing Landscape
still pledging the way I think that blogging is majorly evolving like it is just with any marketing source which is what your blog is marketing your blog is a marketing engine that is constantly evolving with the newest thing and what’s happening next when bloggers get into issues or when their blog stops growing is when they stop evolving their best practices so for us literally every single year and with every single algorithm change we are constantly updating what we’re doing so that we can continue ranking on
Google to continue ranking on Pinterest YouTube still looks cool and trustworthy but if we did what we did when I first started in 2019, we would look completely out of date blogging is definitely not dead but you need to continue to update your website and continue to make sure that it is things that people want to read basically our goal on our website is when you go to it I don’t want you to know an old post versus a brand new post and I think that that is the key to making sure that your blog doesn’t die
I also, I feel like my mind’s skewing in a million places with this because it could really go all over I also know like from a social media perspective and this is just as like a user because I just started my Instagram like last year so I’m still like a baby in it basically but for the Instagrammers that I followed back in like 2012 2013 2014 when it first started if they have not adapted or used their platform to start another business I mean you can like kind of tell like they kind of fell off
Using Blogging as a Launchpad for Entrepreneurial Success
the face of the earth which that sounds horrible but it’s true and so for me and this is what caused quite the stir when I said this last time I don’t want my career to be blogging I don’t want to be known as a blogger when someone thinks of Sophie zhang I want them to think of a businesswoman entrepreneur who started many businesses and for me and for a lot of people your blog is the most powerful tool in marketing and starting your future businesses because it is the easiest way to get eyes on your
information and so like I always say I want to start an interior design firm I want to be known as an entrepreneur like an interior designer and because of that I knew when starting my blog that i needed to talk about living and dorm rooms which leads to apartments which lead to home and that was a natural path for me and I knew that on my blog I could get readers and gain an audience and trust that can then get me to that second-second destination I think that you would be well it depends on what you’re looking
for and what your goals are with your website but I think in like my case I would be hindering myself if I just stuck with putting out blogging posts and didn’t expand that to other businesses I think that’ll eventually get boring for my readers there needs to be something that keeps them interested and keeps them you know wanting to still look at your stuff another example I don’t know why this just popped into my mind but like let’s say that like you want to start a dog food business okay it would be so smart of you to start a blog
The Strategic Advantage of Blogging for Future Ventures
about dogs get people trusting you on your dog knowledge so then those people you know are interested so then it makes complete sense when you start a dog company or a dog food company that you can then scale and grow up and you have all of those readers that are already interested in your dogs you have an email list that you can sell to instead of just cold starting a dog company so you know what i mean like it is just such a great engine to get to that next business that you want and what i have this is like
exact words I have down this is kind of okay I down you’re dumb if you think blogging is dying it’s simply evolving just like every other business on the planet which is so true every single business is evolving and so you just need to be you know willing to evolve with your blog in that sense and my last point is it’s the internet and how much time you spend on the internet i know I don’t know if this is like a generational thing for my friends and my age but or really this is anyone with an iPhone
but it tells you how long you’re on your phone and it is so depressing how much time you spend on the internet but basically a in a blogging sense of things and where the future of blogging is that the amount of time on your phone is like really good for us even though for the society it’s probably bad but you just gotta think like think about the number of hours that you spend on your phone on the internet looking up information watching people tick tock has turned people into overnight
The Journey of Blogging: A Pathway to Entrepreneurial Success
successes and I remember when I started my blog in 2019 people were saying blogging is set and now look where we are still for full force so that’s kind of my thoughts on that this really was a mind spew but I would love to hear like what you’re interested in I don’t know why it was so triggering oh i think I think the reason why it was so triggering I know when I said that for me like I don’t want to be known as a blogger I want my blog to be my marketing engine is that it takes so much time
to start a blog and you really have to I mean look starting a blog is not for the faint of heart it takes hours and hours and hours and it is not instant success it takes like a year to or I mean months to a year at least to like to start gaining that traction and that is not easy psychologically for the normal everyday person but it really can change your entire life and lead you into multiple more businesses that can sustain you and even a blog can sustain you but like if you really want to grow your portfolio of businesses i just
don’t understand why you wouldn’t blogging just seems like the easiest way to do it for me with the lowest amount of overhead and um most amount of eyes that you can get on it so that’s my thoughts on that one if you want to see more blogging videos this was more of like just me talking but I have like an actual like I have a lot of blogging videos that go through like the actual steps that I recommend doing how to start a blog if you go to buy socialize .com
blogging I have a whole page that goes over all my top blogging tips exactly step by step on how I started my blog my blogging courses are linked there it’s perfecting blogging and perfecting Pinterest and those go through every single thing I get so granular in those courses on how I implemented different strategies and basically just every single step
that I do from a blogging side of things and then from a Pinterest side of things we’re writing an email course right now and I know that those are super helpful so but we also have a ton of free resources if you don’t want to spend money which I totally understand and all these YouTube videos too so if you need more information on blogging make sure to check that out here or on the website follow me